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IAG Kids: Make Yourself At Home. Photography, Joe Ruckli

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IAG Kids: Make Yourself at Home

Alice Nightingale | Cake 2025, Soft Sculpture. Image courtesy of the Artist.

IAG Kids Exhibition

IAG Kids: Make Yourself at Home

25 Jul 2026 — 08 Nov 2026

A playful, sensory exhibition that explores what home means to children.

Toddler Time: Make Yourself at Home

Alice Nightingale | Cake 2025, Soft Sculpture. Image courtesy of the Artist.

IAG Kids Event

Toddler Time: Make Yourself at Home

31 Jul 2026 — 06 Nov 2026

Join us in our Children's Gallery on Friday mornings for play-based explorations of our current IAG Kids exhibition.

Coming soon

The Big Draw Festival 2026
IAG Event

The Big Draw Festival 2026

24 Oct 2026 — 24 Oct 2026

'Make a Mark' with Studio Maverik as part of the world's biggest celebration of drawing!

IAG Kids x Kellie O’Dempsey: above
IAG Kids Exhibition

IAG Kids x Kellie O’Dempsey: above

21 Nov 2026 — 14 Feb 2027

COMING SOON — Get ready to walk in the sky this summer!

Ipswich Art Gallery takes play seriously. Our goal is to create dynamic pathways for lifelong relationships with art.

Past program favourites

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IAG Kids: LightPlay

Photography, Joe Ruckli

IAG Kids: LightPlay

IAG Kids pop-up at Planes, Trains and Autos

IAG Kids pop-up at Planes, Trains and Autos

IAG Kids: Move it

IAG Kids: Move it

IAG Kids: imagine…

IAG Kids: imagine…

Toddler Time: imagine...

Toddler Time: imagine...

IAG Kids: Dinosaur Hunt

IAG Kids: Dinosaur Hunt

IAG Kids: CLAY Creature Feature

IAG Kids: CLAY Creature Feature

IAG Kids: Dazzle and Create

IAG Kids: Dazzle and Create

BUNKTOPIA: A Bunk Puppets Show

Bunk Puppets creator Jeff Achtem with BUNKTOPIA shadow puppet characters. Image courtesy of the artist.

BUNKTOPIA: A Bunk Puppets Show

IAG Kids x Slow Art Collective

Slow Art Collective
CHIBA, Japan 2024. Image courtesy of the artist.

IAG Kids x Slow Art Collective

Toddler Time: Make It slow

Toddler Time: Make It slow

Toddler Time: Walking Together

Toddler Time: Walking Together

IAG Kids: Walking Together

IAG Kids: Walking Together

design.it | art language design play

design.it | art language design play

design.it | Toddler Time

design.it | Toddler Time

Pattern Play: IAG Kids

Pattern Play: IAG Kids

School Holiday Workshops: Vibrant Vessels

School Holiday Workshops: Vibrant Vessels

Worlds of Wonder

Worlds of Wonder

IAG Kids Studio: Clay

IAG Kids Studio: Clay

Toddler Time: Kids Studio Clay

Toddler Time: Kids Studio Clay

Make Some Noise

Make Some Noise

Toddler Time: Make Some Noise

Make Some Noise, Ipswich Art Gallery, 2023. Photography by Thomas Oliver.

Toddler Time: Make Some Noise

Whalebone

Whalebone

Wind Tubes

Wind Tubes

Wind Tubes for toddlers

Wind Tubes for toddlers

Drawing Machines

Drawing Machines

Just Be Your Selfie

Just Be Your Selfie

Celebrate Your Selfie

Celebrate Your Selfie

Imagine This...

Imagine This...

Bunkasaurus

Bunkasaurus

Perception Deception

Perception Deception

Four Days of Fun

Four Days of Fun

Built for Speed

Built for Speed

LightPlay for Kids

LightPlay for Kids

LightPlay Baby & Toddler

LightPlay Baby & Toddler

The Big Draw 2021

The Big Draw 2021

On the Move

On the Move

Treasure Hunt

Treasure Hunt

The Big Draw 2020

The Big Draw 2020

Colour: See the world in a new light

Colour: See the world in a new light

Ball run

Ball run

Tapescape

Tapescape

Construction Site Summer Fun

Construction Site Summer Fun

The Big Draw 2019

The Big Draw 2019

Make a Scribble Machine

Make a Scribble Machine

Playing with Light

Playing with Light

The Big Draw 2018

The Big Draw 2018

Make a Shadow Puppet

Make a Shadow Puppet

Slapdash Galaxy: A Bunk Puppets Show

Slapdash Galaxy: A Bunk Puppets Show

Climbing Web

Climbing Web

Built for Speed 2017

Built for Speed 2017

The Big Draw 2017

The Big Draw 2017

Loose Ends: Theatre for Families

Loose Ends: Theatre for Families

Play with Clay

Play with Clay

The real thing

Jordana Maisie’s interactive kaleidoscope The real thing | in situ at the Ipswich Art Gallery, 2017.

The real thing

Towers of Tomorrow with Lego® Bricks

Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums

Towers of Tomorrow with Lego® Bricks

The Big Draw 2016

The Big Draw 2016

Swamp Juice

Swamp Juice

Light Play 2015

Light Play 2015

Sticks, Stones, Broken Bones

Sticks, Stones, Broken Bones

Climbing Web 2015

Climbing Web 2015

Squaring the Wheel

Squaring the Wheel

Tape It!

Tape It!

Troy Emery

Wild thing XIV 2011 | Polyurethane mannequin, tassel fringing and glue, 50 x 60 x 40 cm.
Courtesy of Iain Dawson Gallery, Sydney.

Wild Thing: Wild Colours, Wild Ideas, Wild Fun!

Dreamer in the Deep

Dreamer in the Deep

Disco Puppy: Stayin' Alive

Disco Puppy: Stayin' Alive

For educators

For educators

Our guiding principles

Our guiding principles